Heart and Circulatory System Books and Resources

Johns Hopkins Heart Bulletin

The Heart Bulletin is a quarterly publication that presents the latest information available to help you make informed decisions about your cardiac care.

The Johns Hopkins White Paper: Hypertension and Stroke

Explains how to treat your high blood pressure and prevent it from harming your health. Also covers the two forms of stroke: ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke.
 
New topics include:

• Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: The best way to get an accurate picture of your blood pressure.
• What to do if standard treatment doesn’t control your high blood pressure.
• Getting more folic acid in your diet appears to reduce the risk of stroke.
• How magnetic resonance imaging may be able to identify people at increased risk

The Johns Hopkins White Paper: Heart Attack Prevention

Focuses on lifesaving strategies for preventing a first heart attack, with up-to-date information on both established and newly discovered risk factors for heart attack; screening tests that can detect a problem before a heart attack occurs; lifestyle measures and medications that can dramatically lower your risk.

 New topics include:

• Should you be tested for C-reactive protein to gauge your heart attack risk?
• Identifying candidates for special heart attack screening when there are no symptoms
• A new statin drug that lowers LDL cholesterol more effectively than other statins.
• The latest findings on alcohol’s protective powers for your heart.

Beyond Cholesterol: The Johns Hopkins Complete Guide for Avoiding Heart Disease
Peter Kwiterovich, M.D.

The Heart of a Child: What Families Need to Know about Heart Disorders in Children
Catherine A. Neill, M.D., Edward B. Clark, M.D., and Carleen Clark, R.N.